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Downtown NYC Musican's Play for the Jazz Foundation Musicians' Emergency Fund and Remember Drummer Lance Carter

Source: Lisa Cooney Carter
April 30, 2007

New York, NY - Friends and colleagues of the late New York drummer, Lance Carter, announce a benefit evening of performances by leading New York City avant-garde and experimental musicians. The Lance Carter Memorial Benefit for the Musicians' Emergency Fund of the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) will take place at the downtown music club, THE KNITTING FACTORY at 74 Leonard Street, New York, NY on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 7:00 pm. The event will be held in the ...

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Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: May Calendar

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2007

May 2007 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Essentially Ellington Celebration Kicks Off May with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra featuring Singer Ernie Andrews Historic Grand Reunion: Todd Williams, Marcus Roberts, Reginald Veal & Herlin Riley Joe Lovano Nonet with Hank Jones Andre Previn - solo & Bucky Pizzarelli with Jay Leonhart - One Night Only - Separate Sets Bill Charlap Triow/ Peter Washington & Kenny Washington Plus Mondays with Quebec Jazz Great Student Rates Everyday! New York, NY -- May ...

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The Jazz Expressions Perform at Manna House Workshops Mini Theater May 6

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2007

The Jazz Expressions Jimmy Scott's swinging back-up quartet perform Sunday May 6, 2007 @ MANNA HOUSE WORKSHOPS MINI THEATER As part of the MEEE Jazz Concert Series 4p.m. Manna House Workshops 338 East 106th Street (Between 1st and 2nd Avenues, NYC) 212-722-8223 With legendary singer Jimmy Scott's blessing, The Jazz Expressions (TJE), his swinging hard-bop back-up quartet, will ...

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May 5 Benefit with William Edgar, John Patitucci and Ruth Naomi Floyd in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2007

Heaven in a Nightclub: A Benefit Concert for Chesterton House NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Philosopher and pianist William Edgar, along with Grammy Award winner and bassist John Patitucci, vocalist Ruth Naomi Floyd, and saxophonist Joe Salzano, will present an evening journey of music and history to benefit Chesterton House, a center for Christian studies affiliated with Cornell University and located in Ithaca, N.Y. The benefit event is titled Heaven in a Nightclub, in which the African-American experience of misery and ...

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A Night of Guitars with Earl Klugh and Bill Frisell - Pittsburgh - May 3-6

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2007

May 3-6 - A Night of Guitars, presented by Earl Klugh, featuring Bill Frisell and more Presented in collaboration with the Guitar Society of Fine Arts Earl Klugh debuted the lighthearted, easy funk style that would become his trademark in the late 1970s and it continued over thirty albums, making him one of the pioneers of smooth jazz and a 13- time GRAMMY nominee. A Night of Guitars is a special project created by Klugh ...

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John Blake, Jr. Ensemble Joins Grammy Winning Fiddler Mark O'Connor & His Appalachia Waltz Trio

Source: Laura Henrich
April 27, 2007

“Triple-threat O'Connor is a jazz artist, a respected classical/ folk composer and a fiddler who performs chamber-music Americana" --The Seattle Times

“Mr. Blake rides those vamps like a master. He also knows how to pace a solo so that it builds to crest after crest, with an oratorical sense of timing" The New York Times

Philadelphia, Pa--Musicopia, formerly known as Strings for Schools, announces an innovative collaboration between the Appalachia Waltz Trio featuring virtuoso fiddler Mark ...

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Bob James and the Angels of Shanghai - In Pittsburgh - May 1 and 2

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2007

May 1-2: The Angels of Shanghai Project presented by Bob James Created by jazz legend Bob James after a 2003 trip to China, “Angels of Shanghai" is comprised of 5 talented students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. James leads this phenomenal group in playing a beautiful and haunting mix of American Jazz and Chinese traditional music. Using instruments created centuries ago, including the er-hu (a two-string violin), the pipa (similar to a lute), guzheng (a cross between a harp ...

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An Odyssey of Jazz, Cabaret, Showbiz Extravaganza, Mystery, Stars Biographies, and Glamorous Stars on a Cosmic Level!

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2007

AN ODYSSEY OF JAZZ, CABARET, SHOWBIZ EXTRAVAGANZA, MYSTERY, STARS BIOGRAPHIES, AND GLAMOROUS STARS ON A COSMIC LEVEL! JUST PUBLISHED: “SHOWBIZ, PIONEERS, BEST SINGERS, MUSICIANS AND ENTERTAINERS FROM 1606 TO THE PRESENT": Volume IV of the series World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment. Just imagine 800 photos, 100 charts, 6,000 names and entries and the most provocative personal histories of stars and divas in one single volume!! In addition to the history of American underground music, politics in ...

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